Kant's Transcendental Deduction: An Analytical-Historical Commentary

Henry E. Allison presents an analytical and historical commentary on Kant's transcendental deduction of the pure concepts of the understanding in the Critique of Pure Reason. He argues that, rather than providing a new solution to an old problem (refuting a global skepticism regarding the objectivity of experience), it addresses a new problem (the role of a priori concepts or categories stemming from the nature of the understanding in grounding this objectivity), and he traces the line of t...